PAM sits down with Juba, DJ and documentarian of “Assurance” diving into the plights and lives of female DJs in Nigeria. Nigeria’s musical influence has been growing steadily throughout the decade and in places like […]
In 2022 German agency Piranha Arts, in collaboration with Nyege Nyege, funded 2, 6 week residencies, one in Kampala, Uganda, another in Hamburg, Germany, bringing together over 30 artists from various regions of Africa and […]
The world’s first collection of gorgeous pop songs from Frank and His Sisters, a family band from Moshi, Tanzania. Formed in the early 1950s by Frank Humplick, Thecla Clara and Maria Regina, the trio recorded […]
Releasing their second album of the year, Show Dem Camp’s The Palmwine Express is a creative mix of hip-hop, juju, R&B, pop and Nigeria’s historic palm-wine music featuring Tems, Nonso, Burna Boy and more. Show […]
2020 is here. An occasion for PAM to revisit the last decade’s best albums. From 2010 to 2019, here are our 80 essential albums of the decade. It was abundantly clear at the top of […]
Lesotho-born South Africa-based writer Tseliso Monaheng selected an overview of some hip joints that saw us through 2019. Photo: Abdullah Ibrahim by Gabriel Bertogg The new breed of the South African jazz landscape was swingin’ loud […]
At the Transmusicales festival, “trance” is not just a word in its name. PAM accompanied artists at the festival whose music is closely linked to a phenomenon ethnomusicologist Gilbert Rouget dedicated a reference book to, […]
Photos credit: Daniel Oduntan / permission of the artist Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry has released Rainford with Adrian Sherwood, boss of the legendary English label On-U-Sound. At 83, the Jamaican wizard is finally – without folklore […]